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Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Temple
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'Three-act play that satirises the excesses of the 1980s in Australia. It presents a cruelly funny portrait of an entrepreneurial operator, Laurie, the rags-to-riches takeover king of the decade. Includes a postscript and the program for the first production, held at Melbourne's Playbox Theatre in July 1993.'

Source: Currency Press ed.

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Production Details

  • First produced by the Playbox Theatre Centre, CUB Malthouse, South Melbourne, 27 July 1993.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency Press ; Playbox Theatre , 1993 .
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      Extent: 102p.
      Description: illus., port.
      Note/s:
      • Theatre program in centre pages.
      ISBN: 0868193542 (pbk.)
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749390
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books ; Untapped , 2022 .
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      Extent: 206p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 25 October 2022.
      ISBN: 9781761281648
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Related Works

The Temple Louis Nowra , 1998 extract drama (The Temple)
— Appears in: The Actor's Audition Manual 1998; (p. 234-235)
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Works about this Work

Best Stage Performances of 2019 Alison Croggon , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 21 December - 24 January 2019-2020;

'While Australian artists face challenging times, brilliant work is still being staged.'
y separately published work icon The Theatre of Louis Nowra Veronica Kelly , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 1998 Z543914 1998 single work criticism
'More Character-Driven' : An Interview with Louis Nowra Veronica Kelly (interviewer), 1995 single work criticism interview
— Appears in: Coppertales : A Journal of Rural Arts , no. 2 1995; (p. 78-92)
Chasing the Cowboys Bob Evans , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 January 1994; (p. 19)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
Familiarity, Greeds, Contempt Rosemary Neill , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 January 1994; (p. 11)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
[Review] The Temple [and] The Adman Peter Fitzpatrick , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 25 1994; (p. 199-201)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama ; The Adman Robert Hewett , 1991 single work drama
Expose of the '80s We Had to Have John Larkin , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 1 August 1993; (p. 7)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
A Rake's Progress Through the Business World of the '80s Leonard Radic , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 July 1993; (p. 17)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
[Review] The Temple Bryce Hallett , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 30 July 1993; (p. 8)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
House of Mirrors Fiona Scott-Norman , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 August vol. 115 no. 5882 1993; (p. 83-84)
— Review of The Temple Louis Nowra , 1993 single work drama
Plots in Search of a Narrative Suzanne Kiernan , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , January-February no. 61 1994; (p. 14)
The Chaos of Greed Louis Nowra , 1993 single work prose
— Appears in: The Age , 24 July 1993; (p. 11)
Nowra's Hard Look at the '80s John Larkin , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 25 July 1993; (p. 7)
An Evening of Crime and Culture Pierpont , 1994 single work prose humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 March vol. 116 no. 5911 1994; (p. 98)
y separately published work icon The Theatre of Louis Nowra Veronica Kelly , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 1998 Z543914 1998 single work criticism
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